IPP Mail Archive: IPP>MOD - HTML and IPP streams

IPP>MOD - HTML and IPP streams

rdebry@us.ibm.com
Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:38:42 -0500

Classification:
Prologue:
Epilogue: Roger K deBry
Senior Techncial Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry@us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-924-4080

Yesterday's conference call was very lively. I appreciate the debate, it helps
me to sort out things
in my own mind. Based on the updated diagram I have drawn and posted in a
separate note, and
yesterdays discussion, I'd suggest the following relative to the use of HTML
and IPP:

A Web Browser must support HTML (pretty obvious)

An IPP Client must support IPP, and may optionally support HTML

An IPP Server must support IPP and may optionally support HTML.

I don't think that we can say that an IPP Server MUST support HTML in
order to be IPP compliant. Actually sounds pretty silly to me to say that
HTML is required to be IPP compliant! I don't think that this is an
interoperability issue, is it?